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Many feel the one-child policy is a violation of basic human rights or are concerned with the practices allegedly used to implement this policy. [5] China has been accused of meeting its population requirements through bribery, coercion, forced sterilization, forced abortion, and infanticide, with most reports coming from rural areas.
In at least one case, a government official who claims to have participated in some of these actions testified before a United States House subcommittee regarding her participation in forced sterilizations and abortions. [6] It was also reported as recently as 2001 that in Guangdong a quota of 20,000 forced abortions was set due to reported disregard of the one-child policy. The effort included using portable ultrasound devices to locate abortion candidates. It is reported that women as far along as 8.5 months pregnant are forced to abort by injection of saline solution into the womb, killing the baby and causing the mother great mental and physical pain. [7]
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_child_policy
China's Generation Y (Gen Y) is a generation of approximately 240 million people born between 1980 and 1990. Growing up in modern China, China’s Gen Y has been characterized by its optimism for the future, newfound excitement for consumerism and entrepreneurship and acceptance of its historic role in transforming modern China into an economic superpower. Gen Y teens are also distinguished by their increased access to the Internet, high-tech MP3 players, computers and mobile phones. The book China’s Generation Y (Michael Stanat – 2005) explores the adolescent generation in urban Chinese cities. Generation Y teens in China often experience a palpable generation gap between them and their elders. Growing up under Mao, Gen Y’s parents experienced famine and political instability. Many lack an education because of the policies set forth under the Cultural Revolution. On the other hand, China’s Generation Y increasingly lives in an environment of tremendous economic growth and social change, high technology, and rigorous education requirements. A clash between tradition and modern influences is noticeable in purchasing habits, career pursuits and daily interaction between child and elders. Furthermore, young adults have been indirectly affected by forced government shutdowns of thousands of Internet cafes each year that prevent the excessive use of the Internet. Young people are also affected by China’s large socioeconomic divide between urban and rural residents and societal problems resulting from modernization. The conflict between Gen Y teenagers and China’s government has also contributed to the idea in the West holding that the communist government will collapse during their lifetimes.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_emperor
You see, they had the strength, the will, the courage, and the intelligence to pay an incredible price. We paid the price over hundreds of years, and the memory of it has vanished, so we condemn others who are willing to do anything to succeed as a society. They have achieved a miracle. They have compressed 400 years of suffering into two generations. We should not begrudge them their cruel miracles, as they should not begrudge us the cruelties our good fortune led us to commit upon others.

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